Lecture Description
May 19, 2009 - Leonard Susskind lectures on a new class of systems, magnetic systems. He goes on to talk about mean field approximations of molecules in multidimensional lattice systems.
Course Index
- Energy, Entropy, Temperature, and Phase States
- Overview of Elementary Mathematics
- Theory of Fluctuations
- Pressure & Helm-Holtz Free Energy
- Black Hole Thermodynamics
- Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Harmonic Oscillators & Quantum States
- Multidimensional Lattice Systems
- Chemical Potential
- Inflation, Adiabatic Transformation and Thermal Dynamic Systems
Course Description
This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the sixth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on quantum mechanics. The course is taught by Leonard Susskind, the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
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